The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous
novel about the best of times and the worst of times...
The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human
cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade--this is the French
Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A
Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time
of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to
overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion,
Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable
characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death;
the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken
father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute
Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning.
With an Introduction by Frederick Busch
and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson